GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| supernumerary | exceeding the usual, stated, or prescribed number |
| symmetry | balanced proportions |
| resurrect | to raise from the dead |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| stifle | to withhold from circulation or expression |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| nebulous | of, relating to, or resembling a nebula : nebular |